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Make it possible to add the WooCommerce Product featured image from within the ticket meta-block in the event. I would be perfectly happy with either of three solutions:
1 reusing the header image
2 reusing the featured image of the event
3 selecting a separate image for just this reason.

But can understand if option 1 might conflict with how the image might be used otherwise and option 2 might conflict with the fact that the ticket is stored basically separate from the event, so perhaps option 3 should be it and will save me a lot of time anyway. Perhaps there can even be an option or setting allowing control over which of the above
3 options needs to be used.

At the moment there are just two reasons at this time to enter the woocommerce product:
1. selecting the featured image
2. adding a sales-price if the ticket is on sale

Since event tickets plus doesn't add a featured image, the first reason forces me to enter the WooCommerce product for every new ticket and costing me a lot of time and attention. Please solve it in the plugin!

Not adding a featured image is a problem because a thumbnail of the image is normally shown on several places, the most visible of which is the order list in the cart that now defaults to a cross to indicate that the image isn't found.

I know there is a bit of an overlap with an earlier idea, but that one was limited to only one solution. This just addresses the basic need. Please give me an automatically filled featured image in the ticket product!

Make it possible to add the WooCommerce Product featured image from within the ticket meta-block in the event. I would be perfectly happy with either of three solutions:
1 reusing the header image
2 reusing the featured image of the event
3 selecting a separate image for just this reason.

But can understand if option 1 might conflict with how the image might be used otherwise and option 2 might conflict with the fact that the ticket is stored basically separate from the event, so perhaps option 3 should be it and will save me a lot of time anyway.…

We are trying to create an environment where we consolidate live entertainment venues and bands to allow visitors to easily find what they are looking for. I need a few things cleared up for me. I have set up several venues. Then I receive a bands schedule and go to enter that. My question is should the band be the organizer? I like to carry band pics and bios links etc so I need to understand the most efficient way to handle data entry so I don't have to enter the same thing over and over again. Lets say a band called Band 1 sends me their schedule for the month with four dates, one per week at different venues. If I make the Band the event and choose a venue, how do I create an identical event only with a different venue? I see how to create multiple dates in the same venue which is great but that is not always the case. It would be great if there was a Band/Act entry section just like the venue entry. That way you would have a data base of venues and bands. I can't imagine I am the only one with this need. It would be kind of like a bar with two locations wanting to enter their entertainment schedules. Am I missing something?

We are trying to create an environment where we consolidate live entertainment venues and bands to allow visitors to easily find what they are looking for. I need a few things cleared up for me. I have set up several venues. Then I receive a bands schedule and go to enter that. My question is should the band be the organizer? I like to carry band pics and bios links etc so I need to understand the most efficient way to handle data entry so I don't have to enter the same thing over and over again. Lets say a…

While you can break events away from a series for editing, how about a way to take individually posted events that are the same and combine them in to a series. I have many end users who post a single date and then later post the same titled event for other dates/times. Would be great if they could be added together as a series for management.

Ability to add a notification to the event organiser when someone RSVP's for an event, or purchases a ticket. We have a community organisation using tickets plus to manage RSVP's for events, and only have 10-15 people attending each event. They would love to be notified. At the moment we are using BCC on the ticket, but it would be more ideal to just have a notification that could be triggered.

For events that do not yet have a confirmed time or date, (for example, the presence of our favorite star in a 3 or 4 day festival) could include the option "not yet signed" "undefined" "open"... This for both days and hours.

The ability to collect the same attendee information when using the WooCommerce product of an Event Ticket.

There are times when I want to allow users to purchase tickets on the event single page as well as on a dedicated conference page. However, the attendee information is not available on the WooCommerce product of the Event ticket. As these are instantions of the same ticket, the attendee information should captured in a consistent manner and available in the attendee list.

I would like Template events in event calendar for the user to be able to create events from. Right now, the user who creates events for my organization is using events from the past that have been moved to the trash bin to create new events.

I am using event category for activities. I'd like to add a second category for cities and be able to call this category by shortcode to display all events checked off in this category. So I can build a real WP page based on the 2nd category term - instead of being limited to just having a shortcode for the first category.

Let organisers set up multiple ticket tiers in the front end. Events more often than not need more than one ticket type. Yes, you can do this in the admin, but that's no good for front end community users. Please, can this be added asap? Thanks.

Our tax laws stipulate that sales tax is charged based on where an event is located. Currently, we can only set the tax based on store or purchasers location. We will sometimes have a corporate head-office purchase tickets for an employee in another province. In the current setup the tax will be calculated incorrectly. It would be good to be able to specify the regional tax rate when you create a ticket.

In Events Settings, instead of a numerical value, I would like to be able to select an end date. Either select a date or “All events up to end of”…with a month-picker. As we have nothing scheduled in January, I would like to be able to select all events until the end of December, instead of having to change the number after each event, so February’s events don’t appear on the map before the end of the year!

As a public library, this calendar would be a powerful competitor to some of the most advanced library calendar software available if it would offer a room booking/reservation feature. We love The Events Calendar, but with multiple locations and rooms at each branch, we need to be able to keep track on the back end of what is happening and where, see conflicts, and reserve a room without creating a public event.

I believe a function that returns true for _all_ event related views should be part of the plugin.
It also should respect views from all other event related plugins maintained by you like "Event Tickets (Plus)", "Community Tickets" etc.